Vaccines

March 08, 2016

HB938 repairs our broken medical exemption process. It returns power to our doctors without coercion and erroneous oversight of government bureaucrats at the state health department.

No other state in the nation's medical exemption process looks like Mississippi's. The MSDH has behaved recklessly with the lives of our children, denying our doctor's requests following vaccine injury (via phone rather than in writing so there is no paper trail) while they lie, telling our legislators they accept all requests.

We are able to provide any legislator who is interested with proof that this is indeed what is happening. The people of MS desperately need lawmakers to pass 938 without amendments so that our doctors may practice medicine without the thumb of the MSDH in their backs.

This would only bring us in line with the rest of the nation. As things are now, we do NOT have a medical exemption, but rather...a political one.

Mississippians across the state continually reach out for help in securing a medical exemption they desperately need and deserve for their injured or vaccine susceptible children. Many others have fled our state.

There is NOTHING controversial about giving Doctors the right to practice medicine as they see fit. EVERY OTHER STATE, all of which are healthier than MS, has exercised this very thing for decades. It is time, Mississippi. Let's make this happen!

What HB938 WILL do:

• Enforce the current MS law which says any duly licensed physician can write a medical exemption for a child.

• Repair and enforce Mississippi's broken medical exemption process by restoring the authority of physicians to issue a letter of medical exemption to the schools on behalf of a vaccine vulnerable child, without coercion, erroneous oversight, and interference of government bureaucrats at the State Department of Health who have NEVER EXAMINED THE CHILD.

• Prevent agenda-driven government bureaucrats from putting particularly vulnerable children at risk by requiring those children to be vaccinated against their physician's best advice, as is the current and habitual practice of the MSDH. • Bring MS's unreasonably restrictive medical exemption laws more closely in line to that of 49 other healthier states. Almost all other states not only allow religious and/or personal belief exemptions, but they also allow out-of-state physicians, and nurse practitioners, to write medical exemptions to schools, without bureaucratic intervention. These laws in other states have been in place for decades and they work well. • Require a physician to examine the child before writing a letter of exemption. (Why is it that some are ok with a bureaucrat who has NEVER SEEN A CHILD denying a medical exemption, yet are freaking out over a physician who HAS examined the child granting one?) • Create a more family friendly Mississippi for those who are living here and moving here from other states. Many educated and professional, tax paying families are leaving Mississippi. Others won't move here due to our overbearing vaccine law. • Give MS children access to true medical exemptions, rather than MS's current “political exemption” which requires legislators get involved to exhort MSDH to honor physician's letters of exemption for medical reasons. • Save money by eliminating bureaucratic rubber stamping of physician's requests for exemption. If MSDH is granting all requests as they say, taxpayers don't need the added expense of including them in the process. • Be GOOD for MS children who are currently discriminated against and prevented from attending school in Mississippi, while they, in fact, would be permitted in any school outside of Mississippi. What HB938 will NOT do: • Not allow parents to claim religious or personal belief waivers to the vaccine schedule. • Not result in massive numbers of children that have no vaccines. Currently, the exemption rate nationwide, including religious and personal belief exemptions, is 1.7%, which is the lowest in history for the most vaccines given in history. • Not create an environment where children in schools will be “exposed” by sitting next to a partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, vaccine-vulnerable child. Common sense tells us that missing a shot does not equal infection. Exposure simply cannot occur in the absence of infection.

November 27, 2015

Frustration has been ignited by the silence of the mainstream media and the apathy of lawmakers in the face of a shocking audio confession of the CDC Whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson. In August 2014, Dr. Thompson came clean, then produced evidence that he and his fellow senior scientists at the CDC covered up data linking Autism to the MMR vaccine.

This October, men and women from all across the United States, of different races and religions, congregated outside of the Centers for Disease Control Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia to Rally for Truth, Transparency and Freedom. Among them were our some of our own members of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights who sacrificed their time, energy, and finances to represent parents everywhere to demand the US Legislature order an investigation and the truth regarding the CDC's own research on vaccines and Autism.

This is a photograph of Hunter taken at the CDC Rally in Atlanta. Hunter's mom and warrior, Stacey Spencer Hansen, had to flee her home state of Mississippi just to protect her sweet, vaccine injured daughter from further mandatory vaccines. After many attempts, she was NOT able to obtain a medical exemption for her daughter Hadley - despite specialists' exemption request letters to the Mississippi State Department of Health, and despite her daughter's injury being acknowledged in vaccine court as being a vaccine injury! Stacey lobbied the Mississippi Legislature in 2013 telling her nightmare, alongside so many others who plead to simply protect their children from ‪#‎2many2soon‬. This is our grave reality in reality in Mississippi.

Hunter's sister Hadley had seizures immediately following her shots when she was little, and has to be on medication in attempt to control them.

October 27, 2015

I am often asked what is it that lit a fire in my belly to fight the current vaccine law in MS.

Mandated vaccines in Mississippi *DO IN FACT* force children to be vaccinated against their doctors' written advice, against a parent's deeply held convictions that their child may be vulnerable, and against sincere religious beliefs.

I have a son who had a serious neurological event following nine vaccine doses at the age of five years old and I experienced this bureaucratic tyranny first hand.

Our son Jacob had seizures in the 72 hour window following his shots when he was five. He had no fever. He woke up the third morning following the routine nine doses, and toddled into the kitchen behind me where I was making coffee.

I heard a THUD and a groan. I turned around and my beautiful five year old boy had done a trust fall on the kitchen tile, back arched, eyes rolled back in his head, fists clenched up by his ears, grimacing and SHAKING.

He will tell you he woke up with his head under the bed, then fell in the hallway on the way to the kitchen that morning. His (at the time) seven year old brother, John, witnessed his little brother seizing on the kitchen floor while eating his cereal before his first day of second grade. When I went back to make Jacob's bed later that morning, it was soaked with urine, which is classic of seizures through the night.

Fighting the Mississippi State Department of Health

Following Jacob's vaccine induced neurological event, our pediatricians wrote to the state depth of health recommending no further vaccines. The bureaucrats in the Mississippi State Department of Health, who had never laid eyes on my child, DENIED OVERRODE REJECTED his doctors' multiple legitimate requests for medical exemption. He was not able to attend kindergarten and I was forced to keep him home. My family was literally medically terrorized by the State of Mississippi.

It was fully five years later. After four letters from our doctors, political string-pulling, and having met face to face with the State Epidemiologist and my Local Health Officer as the CoDirector of MPVR, our son finally got his desperately needed medical exemption granted. We endured all of this for missing *one* of five required pertussis doses. Jacob was otherwise fully vaccinated according to MS State Department of Health's vaccine requirements for kindergarten.

The Mississippi State Department of Health is indeed ruthless in its pursuit of first-in-the-nation vaccine coverage rates. They demonstrated clearly to me that our children are simply pawns in their agenda.

Could Jacob's event have been a coincidence? He had never had a seizure before nor since. His doctors did not believe it was a coincidence. Vaccines certainly adversely affected his nervous system just as the vaccine manufacturers' package inserts say they can.

To begin with, we delayed Jacob's shots until the age of three because of the research I had done. We have significant family history consistent with what is now considered to be fraudulent science which suggests my children would be Vaccine Vulnerable. Jacob's family history consists of terminal complications of Ulcerative Colitis in maternal uncle, Ulcerative Colitis in paternal grandmother, Celiac Disease in paternal grandfather, Celiac Disease in mother, and an older brother who was moderately Autistic as a small child.

That fraudulent science, I KNOW, saved Jacob's life. Before that science was widely accepted as fraudulent (2010), my pediatric GI offered that we should delay John's and Jacob's shots at an appointment when Jacob was a newborn and John was only two.

I often wonder what would have happened if I had allowed them to give Jacob the HepB at one day old, and the ensuing routine battery of 25 doses in the first six months?

I shudder to think what would have happened to our sweet boy. I thank God that I had faith in "fraudulent science." I thank God that we were financially able for me to be a stay-at-home mom, and that I had the freedom to prayerfully, carefully decide how to vaccinate Jacob, at least until he approached kindergarten age. Many parents don't have that option.

Certainly, that scientist who was labeled a fraud, is a hero to families like mine. One day the world will know he was simply ahead of his time, and our society chose to put money before our children. I don't believe that day is very far off.

The Ignored CDC Whistleblower

Dr. William Thompson is a Senior Scientist from the CDC's Vaccine Research Division. Dr. Thompson was one of the five authors of the paper our CDC published in 2004 claiming to disprove the vaccine/autism link. He has recently come forward confessing that he and his colleagues covered up data, literally throwing it in a garbage can, that he has "great shame" and has "stopped lying." That trashed data showed that Dr. Andrew Wakefield was RIGHT. That trashed data showed that some baby boys were at a 340% greater risk of developing Autism when given the MMR vaccine before the age of three years old.

Thompson has been granted Whistleblower Status by the Obama administration, and is still employed at the CDC.

Many, including Florida Congressman Bill Posey, are begging Congress to subpoena Dr. Thompson to testify, exposing the fraud within the CDC. But our Congress has allowed the CDC to investigate themselves.

Our Kids, Our Priority

How many children with Autism do you know? ADHD? Seizure disorder? Parents need to be looking back at shot records and connecting the dots.

We have a crisis of big government bureaucracy in Mississippi, and our families are paying the price. As long as we have vaccine mandates with no parental rights, the well-being of our kids will be at the mercy of agenda driven bureaucrats and and greedy,corrupt drug companies.

June 29, 2015

Are you concerned about children who are under-vaccinated according to the CDC schedule attending school with children who are fully vaccinated? If so, please consider this.

Below is the list of childhood vaccines given in 1983, before the government decided to protect drug companies and doctors from liability for death or injury due to vaccines. See National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act . Both drug companies and health care providers involved in the vaccination of a child cannot be held financially accountable in a civil court of law for death or injury due to vaccination even if there is a product defect or negligence involved.

The list in the second column is the CDC schedule of vaccines children receive in 2015, and that continues to expand with no end in sight. Click the image to view full sized:

Think about it. For almost four decades vaccine manufacturers have enjoyed both government mandates that guarantee the uptake of their products, as well as a cocoon of protection from liability unique only to the vaccine industry.

How many of these vaccines have most adults had?

How many adults are adequately boostered every two years? Five years? Ten years?

When was your last pertussis booster or your child's teacher's last pertussis booster?

What about the lady at the checkout in Walmart?

In fact, the pertussis vaccine is effective for only 2 years. Chicken Pox and others also need frequent boosters in order to provide any possibility of protection.

If we as adults want to require others to risk hyper-vaccinating their vulnerable infants and children, then is it not only fair that we roll up our sleeves to the same as well? Is it morally responsible to expect our most vulnerable little ones to bear the load of protecting the "greater good"?

As for the model of herd immunity, clearly the majority of the population is walking around largely un-vaccinated for most everything we are mandating children be vaccinated for.

Herd immunity is pure marketing by corrupt big pharmaceutical companies to create fear and urgency among parents to require ALL children to be vaccinated for everything on the schedule, regardless of how large the schedule becomes.

If the adult population isn't being boostered every two, five, or ten years for most if not all these diseases, then the herd immunity model sinks like the Titanic.

It is a false notion to believe that only vaccinating little ones creates herd immunity. Ask any cattle farmer.

January 25, 2015

Breaking in 2014: The truth about a CDC researcher blowing the whistle regarding CDC data, Merck’s MMR vaccine and the studies conducted that revealed that black baby boys may be at 340% greater risk for developing autism when getting the MMR vaccine before age 3. The MMR vaccine is currently mandated to be given at 12 months and again at 4 year old.

The third whistleblower -- a senior CDC scientist named William Thompson -- only indirectly blew the whistle on Merck. He more blew it on himself and colleagues at the CDC who participated in a 2004 study involving the MMR vaccine. Here, the allegations involve a cover-up of data pointing to high rates of autism in African-American boys after they were vaccinated with MMR. In what could be high-profile House hearings before Congressman Posey's Science Committee -- hearings made all the more explosive given the introduction of race into the mix -- Merck could find itself under unprecedented scrutiny. The CDC still stands by its study although Frank DeStefano, the CDC's Director of Immunization Safety and a co-author in the CDC study, also stated that he plans to review his notes with an eye to reanalyzing the data.

From an e-mail Dr. Thompson allegedly wrote on October 18, 2002 to Melinda Wharton. "I am writing you once more regarding the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) request for a broad range of documents associated with MMR, thimerosal, and autism. I first spoke with you on September 3rd of 2002 regarding the sensitive results we have been struggling with in the MADDSP MMR/Autism study."

Further on in the e-mail Thompson wrote, "I don't think anyone has broken the law but I was extremely uncomfortable when Dr. Coleen Boyle, a coauthor on our paper, was required to testify before Congressman Dan Burton's committee in April of 2002 regarding MMR and autism. My level of concern has also caused me to seriously consider removing myself as an author on the draft manuscript."

On February 2, 2004, Thompson wrote a letter to Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control. It began, "We've not met yet to discuss these matters, but I'm sure you're aware of the Institute of Medicine Meeting regarding vaccines and autism that will take place on February 9th. I will be presenting the summary of our results from the Metropolitan Atlanta Autism Case-Control Study and I will have to present several problematical results relating to statistical associations between the receipt of MMR vaccine and autism."

The CDC’s DeStefano acknowledges that he and his study co-authors changed their study analysis plan midstream, which resulted in reducing the statistical vaccine-autism link among black boys. But he says they did so for good scientific reason.

“[Vaccine] exposure around [three years of age] is just not biologically plausible to have a causal association with autism,” DeStefano says. “I mean autism would’ve already started by then…it probably starts in the womb. So I think from a biological argument, it’s implausible this was a causal association.”

The issue is highly-charged for several reasons: public health officials fear that the public will panic and stop vaccinating if they believe there are links between vaccines and autism. That could lead to resurgence in serious infectious diseases.

Also, vaccination is a multi-billion dollar global industry that employs law firms and public relations agents to engage in a variety of high-powered PR efforts. These efforts include: lobbying members of Congress to prevent hearings exploring vaccine safety, holding private meetings with news executives to discourage reporting on vaccines and autism, and financing nonprofits which take favorable positions on vaccine safety issues. Because pharmaceutical companies that produce vaccines spend millions of dollars each year buying advertising on television, print and online, critics argue they may be given undue influence over content of the reporting media.

Pharmaceutical interests and their surrogates routinely falsely portray scientists and journalists who investigate vaccine safety as “anti-vaccine.” In his statement, Thompson emphasizes his safety concerns do not reflect an “anti-vaccine” mentality.

Ms. Attkisson’s reported in a blog on her website August 29: This week the CDC in response to a query stated that it is not currently investigating the relation between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). “Further, CDC does not have any planned research addressing vaccines and autism,” said a CDC spokesman.

“CDC believes that this topic has been thoroughly studied and no causal links have been found. Current CDC ASD related research focuses on determining how many people have ASD and understanding risk factors and causes for ASD.”–CDC spokesman

Ten years ago (February 2, 2004), Dr. Thompson expressed concerns about the study’s findings in an urgent letter to CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding; he broke protocol to contact her directly, instead of going through his immediate supervisor. Of the upcoming Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2004 meeting on immunizations and autism, he wrote “I will have to present several problematic results relating to statistical associations between the receipt of the MMR vaccine and autism.” He received no reply from Dr. Gerberding and he was removed from the IOM speaker schedule days before the meeting. The 2004 IOM report, which did not include his findings, was cited by the Omnibus Autism decision that denied 5,000 families compensation for vaccine injury claims, and the report continues to be widely cited for exonerating vaccines’ role in causing autism.

The CDC's final agreed-upon protocol came out for this particular study on September 5, 2001, and in that particular protocol they said they would consider race among the entire population. They called race a co-variant, and that’s just a term that’s used in statistics for a secondary variable, but they said that race would be used within the entire population.

Special thanks to Judy Brasher, retired CRNA, for her research and reporting on this!

November 14, 2014

Mississippi's Clarion Ledger ran a front page story last month touting our state having the nation's highest vaccination rate.

"Mississippi ranks first in the nation in child vaccination rates, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control."

Of Mississippi's 45,719 kindergartners, 99.7 percent were up to date for the 2013-2014 school year. The state also had vaccination rates higher than the rest of the country for children younger than kindergarten age."

They did include this from MPVR, "Mississippi parents do not have the legal right to select, delay, or opt-out of vaccines unless they homeschool. There are 48 states that DO allow that right. We want to be the 49th. We are a group of loving parents who are pushing for the right to make vaccine decisions for our own children without losing their right to an education.

We are not "anti-vaccine"; we are "pro informed consent" and "pro parental rights" to choose what medical procedures our children undergo and when. We support the right of parents to choose their child's medical care, without being forced or coerced into accepting vaccinations in order to attend day care or public or private schools."

In response to the Clarion Ledger's article, CoDirector, Lindey Magee had this to say:

"To be clear, ranking as the most highly vaccinated state is NOT something to be proud of.

More educated states are seeing more and more parents opt out of some of the 49 doses of vaccines administered to our children before kindergarten. Ranking first in vaccination compliance only indicates that Mississippi families are being exploited for its reputation of ignorance and lack of education.It is an embarrassment, not a badge of honor.

As citizens of this state, it is time we take notice of our state's archaic vaccine law. As it is now, the state of Mississippi requires children first be vaccine-injured before a parent can begin the uphill, long battle to secure said injured child from further damage. That is barbaric! Meanwhile, forty-eight other healthier states provide religious and/or philosophical vaccine waivers.

While we have the highest vaccination rates, Mississippi also has the highest infant mortality rate in the U.S. Keep in mind that the U.S. is the most highly vaccinated country in the world; now consider that as a nation, our infant mortality rate falls below 27 other wealthy countries-some of which do not even mandate vaccines at all! Mississippi has the most highly vaccinated pediatric population IN THE WORLD. Why then are we the LEAST healthy? Yes, poverty and crap food, etc. plays a part, but too many vaccines too soon cannot be ignored.

I implore those who buy into this "vaccines must be mandated" notion that uses seriously dangerous diseases like polio and smallpox to sell 30+ doses of vaccines to all babies by six months to reexamine the topic. I was born in 1979 and received 10 doses of vaccines by high school. Where will it end? Mandated medicine is a slippery slope and is affecting a generation of over-vaccinated children!

As a MS parent or grandparent are you interested yet? Are you outraged? I am. Parents in other states are. There are parents everywhere talking about what our unsafe, unchecked vaccine program did to their children. Meanwhile, neither pharmaceutical companies nor the doctors and nurses who administer these vaccines can be held legally liable when they do cause harm and death. (National Child Vaccine Injury Act of 1986) Vaccines can and do cause harm and death. There is no incentive for vaccine manufacturers to make vaccines safe or effective.

Parents have children suffering diabetes, allergies, asthma, seizures and other chronic autoimmune diseases-many listed as adverse events in the vaccine manufacturer inserts, while officials fixate on Ebola and can't wait to debut their untested vaccine for that. Will THAT vaccine be mandated? What about Gardasil? If mandated, as the law is now, you will have NO CHOICE. What about now? Are you interested now?

There is no room for corporate, government parenting in a free society. Our vaccination program is a government program. So many hesitate to trust the government; why should the government be guardian of our children regarding vaccinations?

Most parents do want to vaccinate. Forty-eight other states, including those that border our own allow parents to work with their doctors to determine the best way to do this for their unique child. Parents in Mississippi just want options. We are due the same fundamental rights parents in 48 other states have. This is a personal rights issue. Those who are so certain vaccines are the be-all, end-all to children's health should not be at all threatened by families seeking vaccine rights.

Parents must speak for and be judicious for our children! Doctors and the MS Department of Health brag about high vaccination rates, but fail to notice that while our kids are the most vaccinated on earth they are also the sickest! If vaccines equal health, Mississippi would be the healthiest place in the world, and it absolutely is not. Please, parents, get interested in this!"

October 29, 2014

This October, Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights is sharing stories of Mississippi's children who have had vaccine reactions and injuries.

MPVR is committed to the truth. It seems the mainstream media, medical establishment, and government are persistently presenting stories that sell vaccines, while most parents don't hear the stories that warn us to be careful when vaccinating our children.

With deep appreciation to Ronnie and Jennifer Prine for sharing the painful account of their son's life, and in honor of their precious son, Eric Prine, please hear...A Bright Beginning

Jennifer and I met in 1982 at a game room in Lucedale, Mississippi. It was love at first sight and on Dec. 15, 1984, we were married.

I was a waiter at a resturant in and Jennifer was going to nursing school. We wanted children, but we needed a house first. Six months after we were married, we were given land by Jennifer's family in Lucedale, Mississippi. In 1987, we finally built our house. Although, when we got married we decided to wait for a few years before we had children, I could not wait. I love kids. I could hear the pitter patter of little feet in the house already.

It tooks months before we finally heard those words we had been waiting for, "You are going to be parents." I was on cloud nine! "We have to get started on a baby's room!" It was one of the happiest days of my life. I sometimes thank God that we cannot see into the future.

Eric arrived on May 17, 1991. He complained loudly about his introduction to the outside world, but he was a healthy baby. He soon proved to be a very easy baby with a cheerful disposition. He developed right on schedule.

The Nightmare Begins

We loved our son, so we listened to the doctors who told us that he needed to be vaccinated. My wife was a nurse, so we didn't even think to question whether this was best or not. He was six months old, so it was time to start getting his shots.

Within hours of his DPT shot, our sweet, cheerful baby disappeared. He was replaced with a fussy baby who cried constantly. A large knot developed where the shot was given. This baby who had been sleeping through the night, no longer slept, but kept on waking up screaming.

I remember the first time he had a seizure in my arms. It was seven days after the vaccine. His eyes rolled back in his head, and he went completely stiff. He started turning blue. I feared he was dead. I ran for my wife. She held him, while I drove the car to the hospital. By the time we arrived, he had come out of the seizure and was crying.

The doctors couldn't figure out what had caused the seizure. A spinal tap came up normal. We were sent home the next day without any answers. The specter of Eric seizing in my arms haunted me. He continued to fuss and cry, so we took him back to the doctor. "He has an ear infection," we were told. We were given an antibiotic and returned home.

Eric's next seizure took place in church while Jennifer was giving him a bottle. At first she thought he was choking on the bottle, then she realized he was seizing. She called me, and we met at the local hospital. We were told we would have to take him to a larger facility in Mobile, Alabama. He had 10 seizures during the 35 minute drive.

The Battle Continues

Eric was put on anti-seizure meds. No one could tell us what was causing the seizures. Eric spent a week in ICU. When we headed home, we still had no answers.

The meds stopped the seizures for a month. We were beginning to hope that all would be okay. Then the seizures returned. This time they lasted longer, up to five minutes at a time, and were more frequent.

I cannot describe the helplessness I felt. As I watched each seizure, I wondered how I could survive with my heart intact if it was followed by another one. It felt as though my heart was at the breaking point.

Eric's condition worsened. The doctors couldn't find a seizure medication that Eric would respond to. When the doctor told us that he didn't expect Eric to make it through the night, Jennifer and I turned to the one place we could find comfort. We went to the hospital chapel.

We were both exhausted from days without sleep. It was almost impossible to pray. We wept as Jennifer prayed, "Please, God, if you can't make him well, take him in Your arms to be with You."I heard a voice behind me ask, "Can I pray with you?"

We said, "Yes." I can't remember the prayer, but I'll never forget the comfort I felt when he said, "Go be with your son. He will be okay." I turned to thank our comforter. No one was there. I have wondered ever since if an Angel had been there with us.

Eric went home with us two days later. I thanked God! We still had no real answers. The best theory the doctor could suggest was that Eric had a brain degenerative disease and a life expectancy of possibly two years. We suspected the vaccine could be connected with his problems. We were told that was impossible. However, as we later learned, it was entirely possible according to the vaccine inserts and the Vaccine Information Sheet that the doctors are required to give the parent at the time of vaccination.

Going home involved learning how to manage the seizures, not that they were gone. Eric had only been home a week before they returned. We had O2 in one hand and suction in the other. The neurologist told us to keep a journal to record Eric's responses to the different seizure meds and doses. We started taking turns staying up all night so we could keep the records. We wondered, "Who would take care of Eric when we were no longer able to?"

While living in Lucedale MS, Eric was hospitalized repeatedly at University of South Alabama in Mobile. It was there that his pediatric neurologist, Dr. Paul Maertens, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Special Qualification in Child Neurology, told us he was certain that the DPT had caused Eric's seizure disorder. This was documented in Eric's medical records and the doctor was willing to testify in court.

A Difficult Life

Having to leave Jennifer alone with Eric so I could go to work was so hard. Some days she would cry as I went out the door. We both knew I had to work to pay the bills, but that didn't make being responsible any easier. I don't know what we would have done if her family hadn't come to help us.

Birthdays were the worst. Each year your child passed another milestone, our agony increased. It wasn't quite so bad when Eric was a year old. He was a baby, and we expected to buy him baby toys. As each year passed, the visit to the toy isle grew more difficult. Other fathers would be there with children begging for this toy or that game. It would twist my heart to realize that my boy would never be able to enjoy the things they were asking for. How do you find a gift for an 18 year old who can barely even recognize that something special is happening? You're aware that your child isn't a baby anymore. How do you find something that recognizes this fact but still is appropriate for your child?

I finally had to let Jennifer go to work, as the stress was just too much to handle staying at home everyday. She's a nurse and because its our only income, she has to give vaccinations. She has to have the patients ASK about the vaccines or she can not say anything to them. That is not informed consent. If you can just imagine after what we have endured with our precious son, what its like for her to have to physically do that. It is mentally and emotionally heartbreaking.

How Vaccines Stole From Us

Vaccine injury has not only stolen Erics life, but it has damaged our lives in many other ways. We even lost our first home.

Our daughter Shelby was born in 2000 and her big brother Eric was first to hold her. Shelby went unvaccinated because of concerns that they would affect her as they did her brother. After losing our house due to mounting medical expenses, we moved to Colorado, away from our families. In Colorado, we were able to obtain a personal belief vaccine exemption for our Shelby so she could attend kindergarten and my wife decided to take a job as a traveling RN. There was no way we would stay in Mississippi and consider risking our daughter's health to vaccines after what they did to Eric. In Mississippi Shelby could not qualify for a medical exemption due to her brother's condition.

We attempted after a time to pursue a case in vaccine court to help with Eric's medical expenses. They told us back when Eric was a baby that a reaction 7 days after vaccination wasn't close enough to prove they caused Eric's reaction. (The vaccine manufacturer's package inserts say encephalopathy -brain inflammation- is a possible reaction as far as 14 days later.) Even though Eric's pediatric neurologist would go on the record and testify for his vaccine injury, we were turned away and unable to file with the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to help us financially handle Eric's bills. We had missed the statute of limitation of 3 years because we were too busy in the hospital fighting for Eric's life, praying they could just keep him alive, and also because we were misled into thinking the vaccine couldn't possibly be the cause.

The Hope of CBD or Cannibas Oil

Eric was on many seizure medicines as a baby. One that finally stopped the seizures in their tracks was chloral hydrate, which is a medication that is used for children during MRI to help them be still. He had been on it for 21 years when the FDA decided to take it off the market. This was scary to us because we had no other drug to stop the seizures. So I started looking for something to stop the seizures and found CBD oil, or cannibas. The day the FDA pulled the only drug that worked for Eric we started him on CBD.

On CBD oil Eric went 3 months without seizures. My wife and I were amazed. So to parents out there, I want to tell you to never give up! I loved my son so much I was willing to give my life for him and that is what I did. My wife did the same. No matter what the doctors tell you, you are the parent. You should have the last and first say in your children's care. I believe that was why Eric lived as long as he did. What Eric Taught Us

As parents we would do anything in this world for our children. I tried all I could to fix Eric, but then I saw it wasn't him that needed fixing, it was us. He was an angel sent to us to care for and show the world that we are to never take one day for granted, and that the kind of house we live in doesn't matter. We are to love each other for who we are.

My wife Jennifer and I thank you for remembering what Eric went through so that others can be made aware of the risks and failures of vaccines for the sake of our children. Please continue sharing Eric's story and spread it around the world. Please don't let his life be in vain.

October 15, 2014

We hear more and more stories regarding the lack of informed consent and the overreach of medicine into our children's schools and our own workplaces. This is one such story happening in McComb, Mississippi, shared by Rebecca Carter.

As I unpacked my daughter's school bag during the first week of October I found a letter about the school’s FluMist School Vaccination Program. The letter stated that the local Children’s Clinic had teamed up with our private school to help immunize the students against the flu. It stated that a consent form was attached so that parents could review and agree to have their child vaccinated while at school on October 16.

I discovered that there was no Vaccine Information Sheet included so I made a phone call to the school the following Monday. The headmaster was out, but was able to speak with the elementary principal. I explained to her my concern that there was not an Information Sheet sent home with the concent form. I told her that for a parent to engage in informed consent that the information must be presented to that parent before they can consent. I asked her to please have the Vaccine Information Sheet sent home with a new consent form, and to do away with the consent forms that were previously signed.

The principal also mentioned to me that she didn’t know what I’d want to do with my daughter that day since it was a live virus and she wondered about her being around WC, my son who was previously immunosuppressed. That opened an opportunity for us to discuss shedding and how that was a major concern of mine as well. I also shared with her that the school being liable if a reaction occurred was another real concern of mine.

A day later, a new notice showed up in the school bag. More FluMist Information…well, not really.

The school sent home another FluMist consent form but this time is was from the State of Florida’s Department of Health. (A perfect example as to why the school shouldn’t try to run a medical facility.)

The principal must not have understood what I was asking her to include. So, I did what I’m good at and I took matters into my own hands. I went to the local Children’s Clinic and requested the FluMist Vaccine Information Statement for the FluMist that would be given at the school. The nice lady at the counter promptly returned with the information and then I asked her why this information wasn’t given to the parents in the first place? This time she promptly went and found some help.

Another lady approached the counter. She commented that she didn’t know why they (the school) do not send out the Vaccine Information Statement with the consent form. Even when I asked her if it was the Children’s Clinic’s duty to provide this information for the parents since the clinic would be the ones administering the vaccines she said, “no, they (school) do all of the paperwork, we just go out there and do it (administer vaccine) as a courtesy for them.”

What I discovered later was that the information that had originally been sent home in my daughter's bag was actually sent from the Children’s Clinic. The nurse at the Children’s Clinic clearly stated on several occasions that the school was the one responsible for the information that was sent to parents, yet the letter was signed, ****** Children’s Clinic. I hate that I didn’t realize this while I was at the clinic so that it could have been addressed properly.

What I learned from my visit to the Children’s Clinic was that they are very unconcerned with making sure parents know what the risks are before having their children vaccinated. The nurse there did her best to put the blame somewhere else.

Nevertheless, I took the FluMist Vaccine Information Statement to the school and presented it to the elementary principal. She looked it over and agreed to send it out to all of the students and even thanked me for bringing it to her. However, it hasn’t shown up in LC’s school bag yet and it’s the Tuesday before vaccination day on Thursday.

My main concerns from the very beginning with this situation were:

Does the school have the students’ best interest in mind?

Have they provided the proper information for the students’ parents to make an informed decision?

Is the school prepared to handle an adverse reaction situation if it were to occur at the school?

Has the school provided the proper information to protect it from liability?

Shedding!

Schools are supposed to be a place where we send our children to get an education.Schools are not medical clinics and vaccines should not be administered in schools where the students’ do not have a parent present.

I highly doubt the school’s readiness to handle an adverse reaction situation were it to happen. The reason that I am doubtful is because most people think that it will not ever happen “here” until it actually does. In my opinion, if the school continues to offer the FluMist program, eventually someone will have an adverse reaction.

So far, I do not believe that the school has provided enough information for parents to make an informed decision. They may have provided the minimum information necessary to meet informed consent, but this is our children that we are talking about. In this case, we parents deserve more than the minimum. I believe that if a child has an adverse reaction after receiving the FluMist vaccine at my child’s school, the parents are going to be at that office demanding an explanation as to why they weren’t provided with information about possible risks of the vaccination.

I don’t think the school has really thought about the potential risks that this could bring upon the students. It is my prayer that they would reconsider.

Shedding, a topic that was brought up to me by the principal herself, is also something that the administration has clearly not thought through. If they had, they would realize the potential risks of contracting the flu virus even for those who chose to forgo the vaccine itself.

Rebecca Carter is a wife, mom and vaccine rights advocate who despite forgoing the FluMist vaccine for her own children went out of her way to make certain that other parents had the information they need in order to provide true informed consent. MPVR received reports from several parents regarding this issue. We are horrified that a children's clinic together with a private school would act so carelessly and irresponsibly regarding the children in their care.

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Did you know, regarding FluMist?

Shedding is real. FluMist is a live vaccine. Take a look at the above package insert. This is taken from the insert from the vaccine that will be administered at Parklane Academy tomorrow.

What this table means is that among children age 6 months to 17 years, who received FluMist, between 1-7% of them were shedding the live virus through nasal secretions for up to 28 days post vaccination.

The insert warns about transmission to "immunocompromised household contacts."What about classmates?Children in a school setting spend 7-8 hours together in close quarters, five days a week. Many of these children have allergies and asthma and other immune conditions that make them more vulnerable to infections.

Don't parents have a right to know other children are contagious and are spreading the flu? AS A RESULT OF GETTING THE VACCINE! I'd go so far as to say that recently vaccinated children should stay out of the classroom until they are no longer contagious.

Also form that same insert:

...clinical significance that delivered doses were detected in the brain stomach and lungs of ADULTS is unknown.

...has NOT been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or its potential to impair fertility.

Well then.

90% of those who die from influenza are over 70 years old. If you are 69 or younger, your chances of dying from the flu are something like 1 in 100,000. Meanwhile, there are close to 100 flu-vaccine deaths reported annually, and the reporting system (VAERS) is dysfunctional. The real number is likely over 1,000 annual flu-vaccine deaths.

We are talking about preventive medicine here. Shouldn't preventive medicine be MORE safe than the thing it is supposedly preventing?

Of course, we cannot give medical advice, our goal is simply to arm parents with knowledge...to present the failures that are most often omitted from the informed consent equation. To make others think.

On a personal level, because there are risks in administering vaccines, I would certainly never consider allowing any vaccine to be administered to my child without being present. Should there be an adverse reaction, I would want to be there to access it, comfort my child and see to it that he/she got the attention needed at that moment in time.

Remember to that neither drug companies nor the doctors/nurses etc. can be sued when something bad happens as a result of vaccination.

October 14, 2014

Remember this article we blogged earlier this month where McComb's local newspaper editor spoke in favor of vaccine mandates using much misinformation to justify his stance? Well, our CoDirector, Lindey Magee responded to him with her thoughts on the matter.

Editor Jack Ryan contacted her to let her know he would run her letter stating that while he does support mandatory vaccination, "I must say that 49 of them seems a bit much." He stated he thinks people should hear both sides. We agree! Vaccine propaganda and fear mongering has seen front and center stage for far too long. So long, in fact that we in Mississippi have found ourselves with no parental vaccine rights while the state continues to add mandates with no end in sight.

We are thankful that Lindey's thoughts on the matter were published and hope many of you will also send letters to your local paper. Just as her words prompted Mr. Ryan to consider that our current schedule may "a bit much." So can YOU spread this TRUTH in the same way.

And to those who do support mandatory vaccines, but think 49 doses a bit much, well, you can't have it both ways. You cannot sit by and tolerate a mandated vaccine program that shoves 49 doses of 15 vaccines into children before kindergarten, but follow that up with "it may be a bit much." or "I'll never let my child get the Gardasil or Flu or Ebola vaccine" ...because there is NOTHING stopping those from becoming mandated tomorrow.

It's too many too soon with more being added because collectively not enough have boldly stood and said NO MORE! I beg of you...GET INTERESTED; help us fight for our rights here in Mississippi. Our children deserve better.

Now, we urge you to get right on penning your own letter to your local newspaper. Lindey has sent many emails to her editor over the past year. Persistence pays off, and not much is more worthwhile than fighting for our rights to parent our children, right? That begins with educating people as to what is going on in our state. So many just aren't aware. Once they are though, they too are most typically NOT okay with Mississippi's archaic vaccine law.

October 04, 2014

It seems the Enterprise Journal's editor is not a fan of the idea of parental rights in Mississippi. McComb, Mississippi's local paper ran this editorial Friday:

Speaking on behalf of the nearly 2000 MS families that make up Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, I am shaking my head. Surely if this editor sat down and spoke to just a few of the hundreds of families in Mississippi who are directly adversely affected by Mississippi's archaic vaccine law he would certainly see things in a new, more free-thinking light.